What I like from watching it again: the aspect of structured programming.

It’s quite refreshing to see a language that doesn’t rely so much on brackets.

It even got away without syntax highlighting by using all uppercase REPEAT, BEGIN, END or capitalising function calls.

Thanks for sharing!

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The manuals were a joy. I read them cover to cover. I think I only skipped one update, up through version 5, and was still using it long after MS-DOS was obsolete.

Today, in my rare moments of writing good code, I program like a Pascal programmer. I think you can easily do worse, but it's hard to do much better. One of the ideas that was prevalent at the time, was that as you learned programming, you should also be learning good programming practices.

had this sad moment when i realized i could probably toss all of the books on programming

and this sinking feeling that i dont know how anyone ever sits down to learn this shit ever again

I worked with him at Borland in the early 90’s. He stands out for me because he’s gracious in debate. You don’t mind losing an argument to him.

As much as I hate C enemies, I must admit they were for some reason better at standard. If Pascals were such religiously adopting the standard and if C was remaining as fragmented as Pascal, with "otherwise" in one dialect and "else" in another one, then Pascal could win. Probably not the Turbo Pascal as we know it. Another Pascal, standard enough Pascal.

Or maybe it should have been Modula-2. Amiga had TDI Modula-2. Don't know if TopSpeed Modula-2 and TDI Modula-2 were source compatible, but I guess far more than different Pascals.

This table is built by ex. Pascal developer that moved to Ada: https://p2ada.sourceforge.net/pascada.htm

Indeed, Ada's standard conformance is a breathe of fresh air.

But Amiga had no Ada compiler, and had Modula-2 compiler. So for the sake of good guys' winning, if time machine moves me to 80s, I would pick Modula-2 for every platform. Nowadays Ada is a choice of good guy

I did find them, and watched some of it, but the content was not worth preserving.

NObody seems to remember the superhigh speed of the compiler? :))

It was lightspeed compared to GCP++ or BC++